Re: Building OpenSSL 3.3.1 links with system libcrypto and libssl

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Mads Rasmussen <madsrasmussen%aserv.dk@localhost> writes:

> On Monday, 30 September 2024 15.24.48 CEST Greg Troxel wrote:
>> NetBSD8 is sufficiently old that essentially nobody is paying attention
>> if pkgsrc works or not.  I have stopped using 8 entirely.  I would
>> suggest updating your system to NetBSD 10.
>
> I am going to hammer on this, until its resolved. I think the issues with the 
> order of -L parameters and the presence of /usr/local/lib should be resolved, 
> its good its working on 9 and 10, but _why_ is it working? happy mistake? 
> coincidence? or did something change?

Sure, you are free to hack on what you want and there may be a bug.  I
was just trying to say that I personally have pruned netbsd-8 off my list.

> My thesis: It is not possible to build OpenSSL from pkgsrc, when the versions 
> of libcrypto and libssl already installed on the system is sufficiently 
> behind, or is missing relevant patches

1.1.1t is really far behind 3, and it built on 9, so it's more
complicated than your theory.

> Am I right in thinking that libcrypto.so and libssl.so from /usr/lib is used, 
> when "-L/usr/lib" is before "-L/usr/pkg/lib" ? If this is indeed the case, 
> could this not lead to problems on 9 and 10, at some point in the future?

See jperkin's advice.

> In any case, I don't think it's in the "NetBSD spirit" just to upgrade my way 
> out of the problem(s), not to neglect your time spend on answering me, I 
> appreciate it

Well, sort of.  But in pkgsrc we have a definition of what is supported,
and pkgsrc de-supported NetBSD 8 with the release of 10.  So formally,
it is not a pkgsrc problem.

> If you have a system with an updated version of OpenSSL, could you please take 
> a look, and see what libcrypto, libssl and libcrypt that version of OpenSSL is 
> linked with?

NetBSD 9:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       17 Sep  2 15:24 /lib/libcrypto.so -> libcrypto.so.14.1
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       17 Sep  2 15:24 /lib/libcrypto.so.14 -> libcrypto.so.14.1
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  3143440 Sep  2 15:24 /lib/libcrypto.so.14.1

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      14 Sep  2 15:24 /usr/lib/libssl.so -> libssl.so.14.0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      14 Aug 26  2017 /usr/lib/libssl.so.10 -> libssl.so.10.6
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      14 Sep  2 15:24 /usr/lib/libssl.so.14 -> libssl.so.14.0
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  649264 Sep  2 15:24 /usr/lib/libssl.so.14.0

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.1.1t  7 Feb 2023